Russian/ Bohemian Composers
What Russian composer wrote "Pictures at an Exhibition"
Modest Musorgsky
This composer/teacher was nicknamed "the one woman graduate school"
Nadia Boulanger
What genre did Richard Strauss focus on?
Opera
Composers often sought to assert a specific national style, alongside an __________ one.
Individual
In what year did Thomas Edison successfully record music with the invention of the wax cylinder?
1877
Scheherazade by Rimsky-Korsakov is an example of ____________.
Exoticism
What school in France was opened to expand musical training?
The Paris Conservatoire
What compositional technique did Mahler use that was influenced by Beethoven?
He include the use of a choir in several of his symphonies.
Was was unique to the United States when composers were seeking create a nationalistic style specific to America.
Who was considered the first impressionist of the 20th century?
Impressionism
How did Jean Sibeluis' Nationalist music differ from the music of other Nationalists writers of the time?
His music portrayed a sense of Finnish music could be portrayed without the use of traditional melodies or imitating folk music.
What 3 things was Eric Satie anti?
Anti-emotional, anti- virtuosic, anti-wagnerian
Who was a German nationalist composer (besides Wagner)
Gustav Mahler or Richard Strauss
What cultures was Dvorak influenced by when composing New World Symphony?
African- American and Native-American music.
Early modernist composers were in a constant search for what?
Originality
Edvard Grieg was inspired by Norwegian _________ dances.
Peasant
What scale did Claude Debussy employ in his impressionist music to create a sense of unresolved and dreamy music?
Whole-tone scale
Gustav Mahler, despite his Jewish heritage was an avid fan of _______.
Wagner
Define impressionism
characterized by suggestion of atmosphere and emotion.
British composer Gustav Holst composed the first what?
Wind band piece
What was so shocking about Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6, his last symphony?
This Pathetique was dark and passionate, and ended by fading away in a descending gesture, directly reflecting his internal struggle.
The musical style driven by the use of chromaticism in the harmony of La Bonne Chanson by Gabriel Faure was described in class as -
Impressionism
Whose head did Salome demand in Richard Strauss' opera?
John the Baptist
Name the two Czech composers we studied in the romantic era:
Antonin Dvorak and Bedrich Smetana
In what year was music recording successful due to the invention of the wax cylinder, and who invented it?
1877, Thomas Edison